Seek and Hide

It's been a while since a weekend has been dedicated to Geocaching (I keep meaning to do a full entry on this), last summer's favorite adventure. As the reader, you are going to have to keep waiting! We do feel guilty about it, but it just seems like we have been really busy with other interests at the moment. I also have to be honest, $4 gas doesn't make driving all over fun either.

The Kalamazoo Nature Center has three caches hidden in it. It's been irritating to see them setting there not found by us, so goal number one for the weekend was fixing that problem. I'm sure the Nature Center is great, but I honestly don't have a big draw towards it. This was my second visit and both times I've walked away thinking the $6 to get in, isn't worth it. They have some decent trails, but I can find equally good trails without paying. The animals are ho hum, obviously I'm not expecting a zoo, but I feel I could see most of what they have in my backyard. That's probably being overly critical, but it's just not for me. The caches were fun, but, my favorite part is the bees. I could sit and watch the bees for a couple of hours. Unfortunately, they didn't hide the caches anywhere near these guys, too bad because Becca would have loved that (not to mention, increasing the difficulty). Now that the caches are found, there's no reason for me to go back.



Now, if Geocaching was the seeking, then the hiding must mean we headed over to South Haven to catch a sunset. On Maui I made a joke that even a bad sunset is still pretty spectacular. Well in South Haven, I'm coming to the conclusion that sunsets don't exist. This makes two trips in a row where the sunset hasn't cooperated with me. I believe it was Thursday the sky exploded into a wonderful pink sky in Kalamazoo. Figuring Saturday would yield the same kind of results, off we went. I thought I was disappointed in the sky last year when we made a special trip, this year was nothing more then a small hole with a thunder storm eating the rest of the sky. Then to top it off, something called harbor fest was in full swing, so it was wall to wall people. Very disappointing. On a positive though, we saw this ship. T-minus 5 minutes before Becca wants a ride on it!



Not sure why, but this was my favorite photo of the day. It shows the small pink hole of a sunset and I can only assume the three gulls are laughing at me, "Haha, No sunset for you". If I only had some Alka-Setzer...